Transplanter.



A. G. JACOBS.

TRANSPLANTER.

APPLICATION FILED mm: 29', 1910.

985,596., Patented Feb. 28, 1911.

ATTORNEYS TRAN SPLAN TER.

985,596. Specification of Letters Patent- Patented Feb. 28, 1911. Application filed June 29, 1910. Serial No. 569,481.

longitudinally thereof, and a handle 16 is secured to the free end of the rod, and is arranged transversely thereof.

A cross bar 17 is arranged between the bars 4, near the roller 9, and the ends of the cross bar are bent laterally to form lugs 18, and the lugs rest against the bars 4, and are secured thereto by rivets 19. The bar is provided with a transverse opening at its center, and the rod 15 passes through the opening, the bar thus acting as a guide for the rod.

In operation, the shell is placed on the ground in vertical position, and with the plant extending upwardly into the same. The ring 10 is lifted as shown in Fig. 2, until the end of the lug 14 engages the cross bar 17. The shell is now forced into the ground by the handle 9, until the lower edge of the shell is below the roots of the plant. The cylinder of earth is then loosened by moving the shell gently from side to side, and the plant and cylinder are lifted.

A hole having been made to receive the plant, the shell with theplant and cylinder is inserted in the hole, and the handle 16 is grasped and held firmly, while the cylinder of the shell at diametrically opposite points, is drawn upward by the roller 9. The cyland to the upper end of each strap a bar 4:, inder is thus pushed out of the shell, and 30 preferably of wood, is secured, by rivets 5. the plant is transplanted with the ball of Each strap is oil-set outwardly at the free S011 n Whlch tS roots are embedded. upper edge of the shell, as shown at 6, and The bars and ps cfmhhcled h e the lower end of the bar is beveled at 7, to Shell m a f m and h rlng 1 provid fit the offset. The bars are connected by a Wlfll the 1 1 g h e- The 35 rod 8 at their upper ends, and a roller 9 is Cross b 8 a gu e fo the rod, and the arranged on th d th ll f i a handle and end of the block or lug act as handle. stops to limit the movement of the ring.

A ring 10 is slidable in the shell, and the I claim ring is provided at diametrically opposite A device of the character specified, com- ;0 points, with integral straps 11 extending up* prising a shell having one end sharpened, a wardly inside of the bars 4, and the upper strap secured to each side of the shell at the ends of the straps are secured to the sides of opposite end, the straps being offset outa plate or block 12 by screws 13. wardly from the shell, a bar secured to the The block is preferably of wood and is offset portion of each strap, arod connecting 5 provided at its center with an upwardly 8X- the ends of the bars, a roller on the rod, a, tending lug 14, preferably rounded as shown. ring slidable in the shell, a strap connected A rod 15 is secured in the lug, extending with each side of the ring, a block or plate To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I AUcUs'rUs G. JACOBS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Jonestown, in the county of Coahoma and 5 State of Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transplanters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in trans '10 planters, and consists in certain novel constructions, and combinations of parts, hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device of the char l5 acter specified, by means of which the plant, together with a sutficient amount of the soil to insure the life of the plant, may be transplanted from one point to another.

Referring to the drawings forming a part hereof Figure l is a perspective View of the improvement, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

The embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings, comprises a shell 1, substantially circular in cross section, and having its lower edge sharpened as at 2. A plurality of straps 3 is riveted to the upper edge to which the straps are connected, a rod connected with the block and extending between the bars in substantial parallelism therewith, a handle on the rod, and a cross bar connecting the bars intermediate their ends and having an openi g through which the rod passes, the handle on the rod and the block limiting the movement of the ring by then engagementwith the cross bar.

AUGUSTUS G. JACOBS.

Vitnesses B. TISE, B. E. h IcCULLoUm-L Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents.

Washington, D. G. 

